38 years of career, more than 80 films and series, nearly 10 awards (including a César and an Oscar) … Juliette Binoche has an impressive CV! She adds a line to it by playing Ouistreham, in which she plays a recognized writer immersed in a team of housekeepers. The experience is similar to one experienced in the 90s: for another role, Juliette Binoche had lived a few days in the street.
It is on the set of C to you, hosted by Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine and broadcast on France 5, that Juliette Binoche returned to this passage Thursday, January 6, 2021. The chronicler of the program Pierre Lescure recalled the past of homelessness of the actress, who was preparing for shoot the movie The Lovers on the Bridge (released in 1991). Juliette Binoche told a moving anecdote about this experiment, to the point of having to hold back her tears.
“I went to Nanterre, there we picked up the tramps to take care of them (…) So I slept there, which was already an ordeal, but very interesting for me who was going to play this role of a person living in the street. And when we came back to Paris, we took a bus that let us go to take the metro. And a man in his forties said to me: ‘I have a 500-franc note, if you want, we can share’“, remembered a Juliette Binoche always very moved by this gesture. The ex-companion of the actor Benoît Magimel and mother of Hannah Magimel (21 years old) put her hand on her chest and breathe a sigh, for s ‘keep from crying.